Business Entity Data
Our business entity data links our vast security reference database of more than 35 million financial instruments to comprehensive business entity information for the issuers of these instruments and their legal hierarchy of ownership.
Features & Benefits
With over 140 data items supported, the service covers key areas of relevance:
Coverage
Specialist researched data on over 473,000 entities
Location
Entity registered address, operating address
Activities
Industry Classification Standards (NACE, NAICS, SIC, ESA 2010)
Linkage
Issue > Issuer > Immediate Parent > Ultimate Parent entity linkages (including full legal names)
Identify
Legal Entity Identifiers for over 248,000 entities to uniquely identify a firm with an industry standard code
Updates
Ongoing monitoring for corporate actions affecting an entity or structure
Use Cases
The service supplies robust entity-level data to help you:
- Calculate risk through exposure to a particular entity, group, industry or region
- Get a clearer picture of the corporate hierarchy of an entity in order to understand the entity’s capital structure and perform analysis
- Identify risks associated with corporate events within the family tree of an entity
- Conduct screening of company business activities to ensure compliance with investment policies
- Facilitate compliance with regulations such as AIFMD, UCITS, Basel II and IFRS-9 using the entity linkages in the compilation of data for credit worthiness and concentration risk measurements.
The entity content from ICE's Entity team is delivered via our IDS and APEX feed platforms today
Upon receipt of a client's securities of interest, the securities are linked to the associated entity and/or parent information which is delivered daily
Client portfolios are tracked to check for unlinked ISINs which are then linked to an issuer / a parent hierarchy by our team of specialists
Entity records are enriched to contain 67 core attributes to describe and classify the entity
Entity content is also available via a web portal in order to search and view entity details and hierarchy